Dave & Chuck the Freak talk about a 62-foot chicken being constructed in Georgia that hopes to act as an AirBnB for honeymooning newlyweds and worry about the steel structure in lightning storms.
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00:00we have talked before on the show that you get to a certain age and really boring things seem
00:10exciting like people tour the country just to look for the world's biggest things yeah right
00:16yeah the world's biggest rocking chair yeah the world's biggest barn of bowl or whatever you call
00:21it roll of yarn yep well a town in southern georgia has been missing out they're opening
00:27a new tourist attraction soon the world's biggest chicken
00:32a 62 foot tall metal chicken that's pretty big even better chuck you can stay inside that chicken
00:42wouldn't you just cook well there's going to be an airbnb inside the chicken that you can rent out
00:51this is in southern georgia which you can easily tell here from this story from w alb tv here's
00:59it's not done yet okay no i know i know i know that well it's taking form but not flight the city of
01:06fish gerald 62 foot tall topiary chicken is starting to look more like a bird mayor jim puckett tells us
01:13the wings will be added next he says construction did slow down over the last year but he said that
01:19was because of the pandemic and the tennessee-based artist topiary joe who was recovering from surgery
01:26the mayor says they're still working on a timeline for completion this is not a model kit that you
01:33just snap together no one's ever built a 62 foot steel chicken before so he's having to come here put
01:40things together measure everything go back to his shop in tennessee and and start then and and so it's
01:46been a work in progress but i'm telling you this is going to be fantastic when it's finished
01:50like i said people continue to have a lot of interest in the big chicken they've even had
01:54newly newlyweds saying they want to stay the night inside the soon-to-be plant layered bird
02:00the money to build this chicken comes from sploss tax dollars where you want a honeymoon babe where
02:06you want a honeymoon you know where i want to go that big old chicken where i want to stay and have
02:11sex and a big chicken the world's biggest chicken done book i hope they finish it soon
02:18the artist had surgery we're just waiting for him to recover it's gonna be sexual nights
02:28inside a big steel chicken where did you guys honeymoon inside the world's biggest chicken
02:34you tell even that news guy was like i'm just about ready to kill myself
02:37still here
02:44fitzgerald georgia tv oh that's right he's probably been in that station for years yeah
02:51hoping one of the big networks would pick him up one day yeah he started it in 2019
02:55yeah at least by the pandemic you know topiary joe topiary joe had to have surgery he was
03:00he was down a lot of a lot of problems with this they're like you cannot go outside you're topiary
03:06joe that mayor was like people don't realize how gorgeous it's gonna look what will fitzgerald
03:12do if you get that covid what will they do it's just a bunch of steel with a bunch of plants holds
03:19up to storms yeah i don't think it's gonna i don't think it will i mean not if a tornado hits
03:25lightning hits it i mean oh my god it's a giant lightning rod that's right it's steel you're
03:30inside a giant steel lightning rod so that's what jim wallace is like no dying a chicken a plant chicken
03:35two people were burned to death when a lightning strike lit dried plants knew the way it's cooked
03:43alive inside that topiary chicken we talked to the mayor about it mayor didn't you see this coming
03:50it was a gorgeous chicken at the time and we had a drought it got real dry and then lightning struck
03:57it and yes four people burned to death inside they couldn't escape you see they couldn't get out
04:06because they're in the middle of the chicken mayor jim bucket really you didn't think this through
04:11we not really apparently never assumed drought never assumed storm never assumed lightning is it
04:21true that the uh boom middle insides of the chicken literally grilled them to death they actually had
04:27grill marks on them oh man topiary joe not able to be reached for comments he's gone
04:34he took off second lightning hit you ain't never gonna find dopiary joe he's used to doing smaller
04:44like little dinosaurs right right he is used to that like fun little things and i i really pressed
04:51them to do a 62 foot tall steel chicken lightning rod none of them none of them have people living
04:58inside them no that was another twist i added to it he told me he was not sure but we made that
05:05thing just out of steel as well which turns out was a real big mistake oh my goodness that was indeed
05:12big mistake they're poking you facing lawsuits or well no i don't i think everyone involved is dead
05:19so i think we're good i think we're good we're gonna try and clean it up
05:23yeah that's right regrow plants and probably take one season we'll be back up with our plant chicken
05:28so you were gonna reopen the world's biggest chicken you're damn right we're reopening
05:33i paid 150 000 for that bird okay that's mayor pucket oh that's a bad idea yeah